Healthy Living: Sweet Potatoes

I was thinking about my friend, Steve, today. He passed away recently…but this isn’t a sad post – it’s a happy one.

Steve had this obsession with sweet potatoes. I think he ate them several times a week. I never really understood the love of the orange potato, but I think that was because, until I met Steve, I’d never had them prepared any other way than mashed with marshmallows at Thanksgiving.

Sweet potatoes are a good source of vitamins A and C. They are more nutritious if cooked in their skins. Some people even refer to the sweet potato as “the perfect food.”

Steve could prepare a sweet potato any way you could imagine. Once when we had dinner, he pureed them with parsnips to make kind of a mashed potato mash up.

He was always posting pictures of his food on Facebook and he’d get dozens of comments of people clamboring for his recipes. Every time I found a sweet potato recipe that looked intriguing, I’d send it his way. This was one I found that he made and gave “two thumbs up.”